Associate Chair for Administration

Position Summary
The Associate Chair for Administration ACA partners with the Chair in the Department of Medicine to develop and execute on a strategic vision and to lead the Department across the clinical care education research and service missions. The ACA ensures departmental resource allocation in support of strategic priorities with a focus on school and system alignment. The Associate Chair assumes substantial independent senior administrative authority in the Chairs Office with responsibility for the Departments policy development oversight of human resources and fiscal management and implementation of systems and resource management to advance the stated goals. The Associate Chair serves several primary functions for the department. The Associate Chair is a member of the senior management team of the Department and directs all nonmedical activities for the Department. In this role the Associate Chair is a full partner with the Chair in internal Departmental activities and as the liaison to the Health Care System and University at large. The Associate Chair also serves as the Departmental representative to a large number of other external groups and individuals including referring physicians contract physicians and agencies peer institutions thirdparty payers managed care companies and vendors. The Chair and Associate Chair work handinhand to set the direction and determine the strategic priorities of the Department to assure that the Departments mission is achieved. The ACA has primary responsibility for: 1. Financial Planning Development and Management 2. Clinical and Business Operations Management 3. Human Resources Management 4. Sponsored Programs Management 5. Planning and Marketing 6. Governance and Oversight. The Department of Medicine the largest academic department in the nations first public university truly embraces its tripartite mission leading in research education and clinical services poised within the Faculty Practice the School of Medicine and UNC Health. The Departments vision is to: support and accelerate the research engine by supporting and recruiting the best and brightest investigators to recruit and train the next generation of internists whose interest span the broad swath of medicine today and what medicine will become tomorrow and to transform clinical medicine into patientcentered care with the highest standards of quality compassion and costconsciousness. The Department is comprised of 450 faculty 900 adjunct faculty 130 advanced practice providers 96 internal medicine residents 100 fellows and 320 staff organized across twelve medicine subspecialty divisions two 340B pharmacy programs and three internal research units. In addition to its internal research units the department works in partnership with leading research centers in cancer GI HIV kidney aging and lung. The clinical programs are broad and while anchored in Chapel Hill span the state and draw patients internationally. Our clinicians are particularly skilled at serving individuals with complex chronic diseases such as cancer inflammatory bowel disease vasculitis and advanced heart failure. Our collaborative approach and colocated clinical areas facilitate multispecialty care. Our outpatient facility at Eastowne provides a home for Medicines multispecialty care disciplines serving a diverse population through 185000 annual visits. The UNC School of Medicine is ranked #5 nationally in NIH funding among public universities. The Department of Medicine has basic science and clinical science research programs with numerous NIH funded investigators with special expertise in areas including cancer immunogenetics the microbiome HIV diabetes therapies clotting disorders emerging infectious diseases and esophageal disease. The Department also has a clinical trials unit.

Required Qualifications Competencies And Experience
The Associate Chair must possess superior verbal and written communications skills excellent interpersonal behaviors and the capacity to inspire confidence in his or her reasoning and decision making. The successful candidate will be an experienced intuitive creative and dynamic leader with superior interpersonal and critical thinking skills. The Associate Chair will have welldeveloped attributes of professionalism leadership communication presentation abilities superior organizational skills as well as analytic expertise. Critical skills and knowledge required are focused but not limited to the following areas: program development and growth strategic planning customer services patient/physician/staff satisfaction quality improvement marketing public relations physician recruitment public speaking fiscal management operational leadership and human resources management.

Preferred Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Candidates must have seven to ten years of experience as a senior manager in a medical practice or other health care organization ideally in an Academic medical center.